BEEF CONSOMME MY WAY ENJOY DAN:

                             BEEF CONSOMME MY WAY by CHEF DAN:

Makes 2 quarts        (for my friend Marv)

INGREDIENTS:

1-pound beef bones

1-pound grass feed ground beef

Water to cover.

1 onion

1 carrot

1 rib celery

1 teaspoon EACH celery salt, and whole peppercorns

1-star anise

1 cinnamon stick

1 bay leaf

4 whole cloves

2 spring fresh rosemary

3 egg whites

MAKING THE BROTH: (PREHEAT OVEN TO 400 F)

1.    Roughly chop onion, carrot, and celery.

2.    Arrange on a baking sheet with bones and vegetables.

3.    Bake for 55 minutes.

4.    Put the meat and vegetables in a soup pot; add celery salt and next 6 ingredients.

5.    Cover with water, bring to a boil; cover reduce heat and simmer for 4 hours.

6.    Using a sieve over a bowl, strain out vegetables, bones, and spices.

7.    Set the vegetables aside and discard the rest.

8.    Cover the pot with plastic wrap and refrigerate allowing the fat to congeal.

9.    Strain off the fat.

10. Chop the vegetables from the broth, mix then with ground beef and egg whites in a stock pot.

11.  Place over low-heat and pour in the broth.

12. Whisk as the mixture barley simmers, to keep the meat from browning on the bottom.

13. Simmer for 45 minutes, stirring occasionally.

14.  When the consommé is done, tip the pot slightly to shift the foam to one side

15. Ladle the consommé through fine sieve into a bowl

ENJOY DAN:                                                                                                VOILA!!